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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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3IKRCEES PNEUMATIC-TIRED CART ARRANGED FOR CARRYING HIVES. 



EXTRACTINGCOMBS. 



Pneumatio-tired Carts for Carrying them to 

 the Honey-house. 



BY L. E. MERCER. 



On page 1574 of the Christmas issue of 

 Gleanings for 1906 are two pictures of Mr. 

 Alexander's extracting-house, and the man 

 with that heavy box of honey. It makes my 

 back aehe to look at that picture. I don't 

 think 1 could keep a man on my bee-ranch 

 more than one day if he 

 had to pack the honey 

 that way. Well do I 

 remember one summer 

 about 23 years ago, 

 when I carried about 20 

 tons of honey in the tin 

 bucket such as used to 

 be advertised in Glean- 

 iN'(is for that purpose. 

 It makes me tired to 

 think about it now. 

 But the next year we 

 used a sort of cart and 

 box that held ten combs, 

 and shoved them into 

 the house on a set of 

 rollers, and out on an- 

 other set; l)ut we soon 

 discarded that for some- 

 thing better, and now 

 we use the rubber-tired 

 carts that you see in 

 the photos I am send- 

 ing. When the larger 

 picture was taken I was 

 loading the v/agon with 



supers for an out-apiary. The rack on the back 

 of the cart is removed when we go to extract- 

 ing, and we place on the cart a box with a 

 tin bottom. This holds 40 L. combs, as seen 

 in the smaller view. We have 12 such carts, 

 two for each apiary. The box is not taken 

 oft' the cart. One is unloaded while the oth- 

 er is loaded, and we always go out with a full 

 set of empty combs to replace the full ones 

 that are taken off the hives. 

 Ventui'a, Cal. 



[Mr. Mercer is one of the most extensive 



A i'neumatic-tiked cart fittkd with a tin-lined box for 



CARRYING EXTRACTING-COMBS. 



